# Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour

Date: 1764

## The fact

In 1764 Smith resigned his Glasgow chair to accompany the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tutorial tour, wintering in Toulouse and later residing in Paris. The dated tutorship is not the chair itself and not the 1776 book. [Adam Smith](/people/adam-smith)’s documented role is: He left the moral-philosophy chair to tutor Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, in France and Geneva. Townshend arranged the post; Quesnay and Turgot were later Paris interlocutors. Do not twin this with the 1752 chair row. Do not split 1766 Paris as a second tour. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Adam Smith's documented role is: He left the moral-philosophy chair to tutor Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, in France and Geneva. Townshend arranged the post; Quesnay and Turgot were later Paris interlocutors.

## Context

Charles Townshend, as the duke’s stepfather, arranged a pensioned tutorship. Geneva, Toulouse, and Paris salons share the itinerary. Named others on the file: Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, Charles Townshend, and later French hosts share the tour. The public setting is the file around 1764-02-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour. The setting of Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour is the public file around 1764-02-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the 1752 chair row. Do not split 1766 Paris as a second tour. Mixed effects of Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and SEP independently date the 1764 resignation and Buccleuch tour. Official: Britannica — Adam Smith, tutor to Buccleuch 1764–66 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Adam Smith, life, France (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Adam Smith, tutor to Buccleuch 1764–66 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Adam Smith, life, France (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Adam Smith, tutor to Buccleuch 1764–66 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a funded tutorial grand tour that also moved him into French economic conversation. Complex shared tutorship. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated tutorial tour put him inside French physiocratic conversation that later informed the political-economy book. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1764 resignation and Buccleuch tour. Not established: that WN is a unique stenograph of Quesnay. Established: a sourced public record of Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour under 1764-02-01. Established: a sourced public record of Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour under 1764-02-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Smith resigns Glasgow to tutor the Duke of Buccleuch on a continental tour. Naming Adam Smith does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1764-02-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Adam Smith: https://factrail.ai/people/adam-smith

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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